The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-06
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.


A Planter of Crawford County Cele-
brates His Tooth Birthday--An Al-
gusta Negro Attempts Suicide Be-
cause His Wife Whipped Him--At-
lanta to Vote Tomorrow.
GEORGIA
McDonough has built ninety new houses
since the railroads came.
An Evansville, Indiana, brewery is figur-
ing to make Atlanta its distributing point
for the South.
Messrs. Dupree & Bishop, of Stevensville,
have moved to Dublin, and are now busy
opening large stock of goods
Lawrence Mcneil has sold his real estate
in Irwin county to Capt. H. II. Tiff, of
Triton. This sale compasses forty lots, or
10, 200 acres of land
w. T. Freeman is one of Madison's most
energetic young farmers. He has this year
made with one mule, Q bales of cotton, IT'S
bushels of corn, 100 bushels of potatoes, fod-
der, shucks peas, etc, in abundance.
Knoxville, Crawford county, is to have
newspaper, and it will be visitor to the
homes of her citizens before many more
days have passed. Percy V. Howell, of
Gibson, will be editor and proprietor
Stephen Ball, negro man about 80 years
old, now in Houston county Jail for hog
stealing, is an old offender He has been in
Jail eighteen times, and has served two terms
in the chain-gang. This is his second time
in Houston Jail.
At IL o'clock, m, on Tuesday, Dec. 90,
at Calhoun, there will be competitive ex-
animation of applicants for the cadetship
at the United States Military Academy for
admission June 3, 1888, from the Seventh
Congressional district.
A mortgage on the stable, stock and
other property of Holman & McAndrews,
at Macon, for 81, 900, was forecloSed Satur-
day by l. G. Plant & Son, to whom the
mortgage was given. The stables are now
open, but are in charge of an agent of Plant
& Son.
The registration books for the city cleo
ton, which takes place at Atlanta to-
morrow, closed Saturday night. About
$500 voters have registered. OF this num-
Der only a small percentage are negroes.
Six members of Council and two Aldermen
are to be elected.
colored citizen of Augusta, named
Andrew J. jackson, said he wanted to die,
and took laudanum Saturday. He did not
take enough, however, and is still living,
with very fair prospects of recovery. He
and his wife had difficulty, in which he
was bad second. ~
Information reached Waycross Saturday
from Argyle, sixteen miles from there on
the Savannah, Florida and Western rail
road, that an unknown negro was run over.
lie Is suppose ed to have been murdered and
placed on the track NJ conceal the crime
The body was dragged one mile or more by
the tram before being discovered by the en-
gineer.
Hon. Tholpas F. Brady, President of the
Boston MuAicipal Council of the Irish Ma
tional League, has accepted the position of
superintendent of the Georgia marble quar-
res In Pickens county. Before leaving
Boston magnificent banquet was rendered
I him by many of the most prominent Irish
men of the Hub, which is prominently re-
ported in all of the Boston journals.
w. H. Price, the leading merchant of
Williamsburg, lost his entire stock of gem
eral merchandise by fire last Monday night.
Mr.. Price estimates his loss as having been
between $4,000 and 5000, upon which he
only carried 1000 insurance. The store
room which he occupied belonged to Capt
+. r. Boyd, of Leary, and was worth about
1000, upon which there was no Insurance.
John Shell, of Senoi, has in his possession
dangerous AK About two weeks ago his
Oldest son cut large cash on his knee and
was laid up for several days. Last Monday
another one of the boys while running with
an ak on his shoulder, stumbled and fell.
cutting his left hand nearly off. and perhaps
will lose it, Thursday morning, while an
other of his sons was cutting wood he UNI
fortunately split his left foot wide open.
A. Ruddatt, a pensioner of the German
army, who lived near Glenmore the past
three years, recently sold his ten-acre farm,
with fair house, two head of cattle and
his crop, for $50 in cash. In order to retain
his place on the pension rolls it was neces-
sary for him to be in Germany once every
ten years. As he and his family had been
away from the Fatherland nine years, they
sacrificed their place to raise means to re-
turn on.
Col. P. NJ. Slaughter, a well known en-
gineer, for several years in charge of the
government works on the Flint river. died
In Albany Friday after a lingering illness
with heart disease and consumption of the
throat Col Slaughter was transferred
some time ago from the Flint river to the
Chattahoochee, but fell sick while in that
city in September last, and remained there
at the house of a woman for whom he had
formed an attachment until his death.
The house of John F. Usry two miles
from Adams Station, on the Southwestern
railroad, in Lee county, was destroyed by
fire Wednesday. 1t is not known how it
started. The smoke house was saved by
hard work. Mr.. Usry had just sold the
place to two of his brothers, Barney aud
VIII, and was about moving to Texas The
house was insured for $780, which was
probably all it was worth. Most of the fur
niture was saved.
The farm yields have been unusually good
in Southwest Georgia this season. AS many
as twenty-six bales of cotton to the mule
have been made this year. In some of the
lower counties long staple cotton has proved
success after several years experiment
with it, and it is bringing wealth to the
small farmers who cultivate it. Long
staple cotton in Coffee and other counties
yields bale per acre and brings in the
snug sum of 800 per bale.
ALI Starr, Henry county darkey, is a
wiser if not a better man than he was two
suns ago. He came to Griffin Friday with
several dollars in his pocket, intent on
having good time. He invested a portion
of his wealth in two gallons of whisky,
with which he filed himself to the brirn
At this stage he claims that several city
darkies took him in hand, got all his money,
took his whisky and turned him loose on the
cold charities of the world, fifteen miles
from home, and without cent He says
he will take out warrant for those who
robbed him.
Near Taylor, Crawford county, Saturday
Daniel Hulto, planter, reached the age of
100 years. Mr.. Hulto has been a resident
of that section good number of years,
having been among the earliest settlers of
the county. He was volunteer in the war
of 1912 and remembers incidents that oc-